GRE Word List
PENDULOUS
poised without visible support
The meaning of the word pendulous is poised without visible support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| wan | suggestive of poor health : sickly |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |
| waggish | resembling or characteristic of a wag |
| vintner | a wine merchant |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |